Not many people think about churches when it comes to winning design awards, but that's just what happened to Queen Anne United Methodist Church at the recent2007 Northwest Design Awards Competition. The competition recognizes interior-design professionals whose work has made a significant contribution to the design industry. Projects are judged on the basis of problem solving, creativity, quality of design and beauty of the space.
These colorful pinwheels each marked with affirmations of peace, adorned the walkway to Northgate Community Center, 10548 Fifth Ave. N.E., on Sept. 21. Girl Scouts Troop 3447 helped community members create the pinwheels as part of the international art installation Pinwheels for Peace on what has been designated the International Day of Peace.
North Seattle teens Elizabeth Davenport, Amy Nevins and Margaret Ruhl are anxious to apply their newfound skills around environmental sustainability, conservation and organic restoration to help make their local community a better place to live in. The girls returned with 12 other Senior Girl Scouts from a summer service mission at Rancho Mastatal in Costa Rica, an environmental learning and sustainable-living center.
Adult-services librarian Mike Herman inspects the periodicals at the soon-to-reopen University Library, 5009 Roosevelt Way N.E. The newly renovated library will reopen this Saturday, Oct. 13, with a community celebration that will start at noon. Scheduled events include a performance by University District-based Jet City Improv, from 1 to 2 p.m.; author and University of Washington professor David Mabberley, from 2 to 3 p.m.; and author Alice Shorett, from 3 to 4 p.m.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people will be missing out on the sights and smells of Wallingford now that a once-annual event has been cancelled indefinitely.Wallingford used to hold its own miniature Bite of Seattle. The last couple years have seen the decline of the event, including a cancellation a couple years ago, leading up to the controversial cancellation this year.
Seattle First Church of the Nazarene credits its longevity to diversity of congregationFrom a small group of friends to a congregation of almost 300 parishioners, Seattle First Church has grown immensely over the last 100 years, yet its mission has stayed the same: "to provide a space where our community can come together," explained associate pastor Tim Smith. Unlike most churches that have one congregation, Seattle First Church has four. This means they hold four separate services, each delivered in a different language: Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese and English. The Seattle First Church of the Nazarene will celebrate 100 years of service in a two-day commemoration Saturday, Oct. 13, and Sunday, Oct. 14.
I'm being stalked. I'm not sure the police can help me with my situation. To tell you the truth, I probably brought this on myself. I was too nice, too giving, too available and encouraged the attention from this person, when deep down inside I sometimes felt like screaming "Leave me alone!" and running far, far away.But I didn't. I stayed in this relationship probably longer than was healthy, and I fear I caused this dependence.
The phrase "shotgun wedding" could really be applied to any general election. But for Nov. 6 this year, the usual forced marriages of money and democracy or politicians and marks...er, constituents...have a more vivid pair joining them on the altar: mass transit and roads. Two great tastes that not only don't taste so great together, but generally despise each other.Yet, for $10.8 billion for an Eastside extension of Sound Transit to kick in during this year's Proposition 1, voters must also approve another $7 billion for new, expanded and upgraded Seattle area roads - and vice versa. That's exactly what state legislators planned...
Pedestrians and bicyclists will again be able to use the Burke-Gilman Trail under the Fremont Bridge starting Monday, Oct. 15. This portion of the trail, from Stone Way North and Phinney Avenue North, had been detoured to North 34th Street to accommodate bridge construction.
The Seattle Police Department is asking for help from University District businesses while officers investigate numerous instances of glued door locks along University Way Northeast.
Had Kurt Cobain never existed, we probably would have invented him. The Nirvana founder's life story - a perfect, if tragic, narrative trajectory that reads like some gnomic page torn from the encyclopedia of modern antiheroes - has achieved the status of myth, so archetypal and broadly drawn that it seems to define rather than just reiterate the unholy triad of "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. At this point in history, a mere dozen-plus years after his untimely but predictable death, Cobain's image has already been carved into the Mount Rushmore of great American burnouts (rather than fade-aways), right alongside Jimi, Jim, Janis and Sid (Vicious, not Caesar).
STAFF ADDITION: Dr. Kristin Nyweide has joined Virginia Mason Sand Point Pediatrics, 4575 Sand Point Way N.E., Suite 108, as a pediatrician. Nyweide previously served as chief resident during her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Laurelhurst.
This summer I paid the ferryman for a ride down the river Styx. In plain speak, I paid to put a profile on an Internet dating site. Maybe equating the experience to purgatory is unnecessarily morbid and dramatic since I did enjoy the experience - for the first week. In June, I filled out a lengthy questionnaire and paid for a three-month subscription on eHarmony. com. Immediately, they sent dozens and dozens of profiles selected as matches to my criteria. Sifting through the profiles was, at first, fascinating, then wearisome, and then frustration set in.
AWARD: 826 Seattle, a youth writing and tutoring laboratory at 8414 Greenwood Ave. N., will receive $25,000 from the Heinz Family Foundation.The funding is part of a $250,000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities that Dave Eggers, author of the autobiographical "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," received. Eggers is one of six people in the country to be recognized at an Oct. 22 ceremony in Pittsburgh.
DINING AROUND: 35th Street Bistro, 709 N. 35th St., has joined the list of 30 restaurants taking part in the biannual dining promotion Dine Around Seattle, formerly known as 25 for $25. On Sundays through Thursdays, from Nov. 1 through 29, diners can enjoy a prix-fixe dinner for $30 or prix-fixe lunch for $15, exclusive of beverage, tax and gratuity.